Sharing knowledge at the Knowledge Graph Alliance summit

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Today, Gerhard Goldbeck presented at the Knowledge Graph Alliance’s (KGA) 1st KG-AI summit at Cranfield University, UK.

Attendees at the summit had the opportunity to listen to speakers and experts in semantics and knowledge graph technology. The workshop aimed to foster innovation, share cutting-edge research, and explore practical applications.

Overall, the KGA supports efforts with semantic knowledge graphs by research organizations, universities, and standardization bodies to facilitate standardization and industry-standard guidance.

Today, on behalf of the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), Gerhard presented the European Materials Modelling Ontology (EMMO) conceptualisation framework as a science-based, pluralistic conceptualisation environment to support knowledge capture and better integrate human and machine ‘intelligence’.

 

Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentationGerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL
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Semantic Materials Workshop meeting 2024 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from the Semantic Materials Workshop meeting held at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, UK 17 April 2024.

Semantic Materials Workshop meeting 2024

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Semantic Materials Workshop

Semantic data and knowledge management for chemicals and materials industries

A partnership meeting organised by the OntoTrans project

 

The inaugural Semantic Materials Workshop meeting took place at the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) on 17 April 2024, organised in conjunction with the partners from the OntoTrans project.

The IOM3 provided a great, yet quirky, venue for our full day of presentations and discussions ranging from industrial requirements to implementations of semantic data management systems.

We were joined by industrial delegates from Johnson Matthey, Michelin, P&G and BASF; ontology developments and applications in materials from Univ Bologna, SINTEF and Fraunhofer ISC; and solutions from SciBite, Semantic Partners and metaphacts, alongside many others.

OntoTrans partners discussed their ideas to offer consulting services based on Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) ontologies and proposed a collaborative, industrial consortium to help usher in the era of “active metadata”.

Thank you to all of our speakers and panellists. To see more photos from this event click here. Photo credits to Vikki Cantrill.

Some of our speakers have kindly shared their presentations as a reminder of the day, which may also be of interest to others, see:

Gerhard Goldbeck – Introduction to the Semantic Materials Workshop

Gerhard Goldbeck – Semantic Materials for Industry

Jesper Friis – Semantic Data and Knowledge Management for Chemicals and Materials-based Industries

Russell Smart – Knowledge Generation and Knowledge Modelling

More presentations will be added as they become publicly available.

 

Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation

Gerhard Goldbeck giving an introductory presentation
Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL

Networking after the meeting

Networking after the meeting
Credit: Vikki Cantrill, GCL

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 862136 (OntoTrans)

Event Announcement: Semantic Materials Workshop

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Semantic Materials Workshop

Semantic data and knowledge management for chemicals and materials industries

A partnership meeting organised by the OntoTrans project

17 April 2024

Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3)

297 Euston Road, London NW1 3AD

 

We are delighted to announce our Semantic Materials Workshop.

The success of digital transformation projects towards semantic data management requires a range of skills and partners all working together. At this expert meeting, partners from the OntoTrans project would like to discuss potential collaborations with a wide range of solution providers and interested parties from chemical and materials industries.

This workshop will include a full day of presentations and discussions ranging from industrial requirements to implementations of semantic data management systems.

Attendees will hear about industrial challenges and directions from Johnson Matthey, Michelin and BASF; ontology developments and applications in materials, including batteries from Univ Bologna, SINTEF and Fraunhofer ISC; and solutions from SciBite, Semantic Partners and metaphacts.

OntoTrans partners plan to offer consulting services to build and implement Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO)-based ontologies that enable materials- and chemistry-based industries to reap the benefits of semantic knowledge management at the enterprise level and enter the era of “active metadata”.

Why use semantic data management?

Data management has evolved considerably over the last 30 years. Semantics and semantic technologies enable us to carry out unified analyses of data from different data sources and offer augmented analyses, recommendations and AI orchestration.

Knowledge management systems reflect and maintain enterprise knowledge that can be integrated with knowledge and data beyond the enterprise, which supports open and co-innovation.

Ontologies are used successfully in finance (FIBO ontology), oil and gas production (ISO15926), and bioinformatics (Gene ontology), along with chemistry domain ontologies. However, semantics in the area of materials science and manufacturing is underexploited.

A number of EU projects have contributed to an ontology framework that incorporates fundamental principles and concepts from physics, chemistry and materials science: the EMMO.

The OntoTrans project has built a semantic knowledge system based on EMMO that enables users to represent innovation challenges and connect them to a range of data sources, including data from modelling and simulation.

Please note: This workshop is an invitation-only event.

To make the most of the day, attendance in-person is recommended. Online participation will be limited to presentations only. In-person registration closes Wednesday 3 April 2024.

For further information, or if you are interested in attending this event, please email us.

Click here to see the draft agenda for this event. Note that this agenda and timings are subject to change.

The IOM3 is based in central London. Click here for directions.

 

Acknowledgement: This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 862136 (OntoTrans)

Working Group consultation now open

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Goldbeck Consulting is involved in proposing a new working group within the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The proposed topic is “Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains”.

The proposal is currently under community review, and feedback and comments are encouraged. Detailed information about the group, including its objectives and work plan, is available here.

To read more and comment, visit the RDA’s case statement page. The review phase runs until 3 February 2024.

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Announcing the BatCAT project

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BatCAT is a new research and innovation project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme that will run until June 2027.

The project aims to create a digital twin for battery manufacturing by developing a cross-chemistry data space for two technologies: Li-ion and Li-S coin cells and redox flow batteries.

Here at GCL, we are excited to be leading the work package on communication, dissemination and exploitation and contributing to physics-based modelling and ontologies.

The project is a large collaboration between 18 partner organisations from 9 European countries, coordinated by NMBU (Norwegian University of Life Sciences).

We look forward to working on this innovative and sustainable initiative.

Read more in an announcement from our partners at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology.

 

Abstracts invited for MSE Congress 2024

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The Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Congress 2024 will take place 24–26 September 2024 in Darmstadt, Germany and online. The scientific program features world-renowned experts and aspiring researchers alike.

The congress will cover numerous topics including biomaterials; characterisation; digital transformation; functional materials; surfaces and devices; circular materials; modelling and simulation; processing and synthesis; and structural materials.

Gerhard will be co-chairing a special symposium entitled “Digital materials: Experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies, and interoperability”.

Abstracts for talks are invited for submission by 31 January 2024.

 

 

Reflecting on 2023!

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As 2023 draws to a close, here at Goldbeck Consulting, we have been reflecting on our successes from this year. Thanks to all of the support from you — our clients, partners and collaborators — there have been lots of highlights! 

We have had the privilege to be involved with six EU projects. Two of these projects have now successfully completed, MarketPlace and OntoCommons, and four that we look forward to continuing work on throughout next year, OntoTrans, OpenModel, nanoMECommons, and DOME 4.0. 

Our work in EU projects and with consulting clients has enabled us to participate in several events, like FEMS EUROMAT 2023, Nanotexnology, OIP-2023 Conference and Scientific Applications of Quantum Computing. 

And our collaborative efforts have resulted in a number of publications and reports: 

Materials Modelling and Informatics Software Market

MarketPlace – a Digital Materials Modelling Marketplace

The Translator in Knowledge Management for Innovation – A Semantic Vocation of Value to Industry

Fundamental Philosophical Commitments for Top-Level Ontologies

Science Communication and Social Media Work as Part of the OntoTrans Project

Review and Alignment of Domain-Level Ontologies for Materials Science

CHAMEO: Characterisation Methodology Ontology

Materials characterisation and software tools as key enablers in Industry 5.0 and wider acceptance of new methods and products 

Modeling experts, knowledge providers and expertise in Materials Modeling: MAEO as an application ontology of EMMO’s ecosystem

A report on the Workshop “Towards Materials and Manufacturing Commons – the enablers Digital Marketplaces, FAIR Principles and Ontologies”

We look forward to an exciting new year to work with both existing and new partners, clients and projects. We will continue to work and consult in the areas of software industry insights, exploitation and business planning and all things related to materials modelling, informatics, ontologies and semantic knowledge management.  

Here’s to a prosperous New Year filled with continued collaboration and success!

 

Demystifying Materials and Manufacturing Commons

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Materials and manufacturing commons is demystified in this latest report from a workshop that provided academic researchers and industrial practitioners the opportunity to discuss key enablers and challenges in this growing area. This work was done as part of the OntoCommons project.

Read the full report here.

Many thanks to our partners and collaborators for this work – Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, UK Research and Innovation, e-Science Data Factory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes – ENIT

 

Ontology and Philosophy

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Ontologies have their origins in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, they have made somewhat in recent decades, not least due to the emergence of the semantic web and related applications in knowledge management, whether in sciences, engineering or business and finance.  If you ever wondered how philosophy is still highly relevant, if not crucial, to creating good ontologies, here is a short post for you, thanks to Oskar Holtz, a second year UCL Philosophy student who joined us as a summer intern.